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Belfast Housing Investment Plan 2019-23 Belfast. Housing. I nvestment Plan 2019-2023 Our Vision: Everyone is able to live in an affordable and decent home, appropriate to their needs, in a safe and attractive place PEOPLE e Wehaveoverarching To provide housing solutions, services and support to the people of strategic Northern Ireland. themes, each with its own purpose PROPERTY statement. To ensure everyone has access to a quality home which is safe, affordable, warm and appropriate to their needs. PLACES To work with others to develop, maintain and sustain attractive, connected, healthy and economically active places. H Execut1ve� 2 Belfast Housing Investment Plan 2019-23 Contents Foreword ............................................................................................................ 4 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 5 Strategic Context .................................................................................................................... 6 Local Context ................................................................................................................... 15 Outcome 1- Help people find housing support and solutions ......................................... 26 Outcome 2-Deliver better homes ................................................................................. 28 Outcome 3-Fostering vibrant sustainable communities ................................................ 31 Outcome 4- Deliver quality public services .................................................................... 33 Appendix 1: Community Plan themes and outcomes ............................................ 36 Appendix 2: Social Housing Need by Settlement 2018-2023 .................................. 38 Appendix 3: Social Housing Development Programme .......................................... 39 Appendix 4: Maintenance Programme, Grants and Adaptations information ......... 42 Appendix 5: Supporting People Information ......................................................... 45 Appendix 6: NIHE Stock at March 2019 .................................................................. 46 Appendix 7: Applicants and Allocations by HNA areas at March 2019 .................... 52 Appendix 8: Management Team contact details .................................................... 53 Appendix 9: Glossary ............................................................................................ 54 This document is available in alternative formats. Contact: Land and Regeneration (Housing Analytics) The Housing Centre, 2 Adelaide Street, Belfast BT2 8PB Tel: 03448 920 900 Next Generation Text (NGT) 18001 03448 920 900 Email: [email protected] Website: www.nihe.gov.uk All mapping material within the document is Crown copyright and is reproduced with permission of Land and Property Services under delegated authority from the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, ©Crown copyright and Database rights NIMA ES&LA209.3. 3 Foreword Welcome to our second Housing Investment Plan, which sets out our local plans for the next four years. After feedback from our customers we hope this report is more reader friendly and information is easier to find. We continue to meet our statutory duties through uncertain times and provide our housing services across Northern Ireland. We still face challenges in the current financial climate and we continue to do our best to deliver our services across the board. Four high level outcomes related to housing and associated services have shaped our plans: 1. Helping people find housing support and solutions; 2. Delivering better homes; 3. Fostering vibrant sustainable communities; and 4. Delivering quality public services. Our Housing Investment Plan reports on our progress over the past twelve months and presents our programmes for the coming year. We have aligned our outcomes to those of the Community Plans and continue to engage with Community Planning Partners to deliver housing services locally. In order to better meet the needs of our tenants and other customers we have developed a Customer Excellence Strategy 2017-20; this aims to deliver continuing improvement for all our customers. We are also improving our Housing Options service to help people find support and solutions to suit their housing needs and, more importantly, to prevent homelessness. We support our tenants to help them remain in their homes, including provision of financial inclusion information as necessary. We will encourage more tenants to get involved in our Social Enterprise Strategy, and we will pilot a digital inclusion project which will assist with accessing services and applying for Universal Credit online. In addition, we will continue our work with the much valued Housing Community Network to future proof our services. Professor Peter Roberts Chair 4 Belfast Housing Investment Plan 2019-23 Introduction Our Housing Investment Plan (HIP) 2015-19 was developed to be the 'comprehensive conversation piece' for the housing element of community planning, involving consultation from a range of stakeholders in the sector. It was intended that the HIP would initiate further discussion amongst partners to shape the future of housing in councils throughout Northern Ireland. Four years later, each council has published their Community Plan which identifies long term priorities for improving the social, economic and environmental wellbeing of their citizens. We believe that our HIP successfully contributed to the formation of the Community Plans. We have aligned our HIP outcomes to each Community Plan to show how our work supports the work of the council and we look forward to continuing to provide our contribution to shaping the future of housing in each council with our Community Planning partners. We will renew the HIP every four years and in the intervening years, will publish an annual update and performance report. When writing our HIP we have taken account of the draft Programme for Government, NI Housing Strategy, Regional Development Strategy, Sustainable Development Strategy for Northern Ireland, Planning Reform, Reform of Local Government, and the Social Housing Reform Programme. 5 Strategic Context The Housing Executive developed the Housing Investment Plan 2019-23 within the context of the Northern Ireland policy framework. Welfare Reform Welfare Reform has meant significant changes to the benefit system for people of working age in Northern Ireland. Whilst all of the changes have had some effect on the Housing Executive, those which have had most impact are Social Sector Size Criteria (Bedroom Tax), Universal Credit and Benefit Cap. In March 2019 Social Sector Size Criteria, for example, was directly impacting on 24,587 Housing Executive tenants; meanwhile 230 were affected by Benefit Cap. However, there are measures in place for people in Northern Ireland to reduce the impact of many of the welfare changes, including Social Sector Size Criteria and Benefit Cap. These Welfare Supplementary Payments (mitigation) are available until March 2020 and are administered by the Department for Communities (DfC). Universal Credit, which is being implemented by DfC, replaces a number of working age benefits, including Housing Benefit. It was introduced in Northern Ireland on a geographical basis between September 2017 and December 2018 for new working age claimants of those benefits being replaced. Roll-out has also meant that existing working age claimants of these benefits, who have a significant change in their circumstances, naturally migrate to Universal Credit. By March 2019, the Housing Executive had 5,944 tenants claiming Universal Credit. Natural migration to Universal Credit continues and will do so until Universal Credit is fully implemented through 'managed migration', where working-age customers on the relevant benefits will be moved to Universal Credit. This is due to start January 2020 and finish by December 2023. It is anticipated that some 45,000 Housing Executive working age tenants will be affected by Universal Credit when roll-out is complete. Housing Benefit's caseload is gradually decreasing and this reduction is likely to continue as Universal Credit's managed migration phase takes effect. However, Housing Benefit will still have a significant number of customers, approximately 44,000 of State Pension Credit age as well as customers living in supported accommodation or who are placed in temporary accommodation. 6 Belfast Housing Investment Plan 2019-23 The Housing Executive will continue to administer Housing Benefit for DfC along with Discretionary Housing Payments for both Housing Benefit and Universal Credit claimants. These payments are designed to help those who get Housing Benefit or Universal Credit but still experience difficulties meeting their housing costs. In addition, the Housing Executive will continue to administer and manage the recovery of Housing Benefit overpayments, including from those claimants with Housing Benefit overpayments who move onto Universal Credit. Housing Benefit will continue to manage the Low Income Rates Relief for non-working age tenants and Lone Pensioner Allowance schemes on behalf of the Department of Finance. Homeless Strategy The First Annual Report on the Housing Executive's Homelessness Strategy 2017 /22 - Ending Homelessness Together was published in October 2018. You can view the report here. The second annual progress report will be published in September 2019. The report demonstrates the multi-agency
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